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Both Harvard's and Radcliffe's rowing records are not only consistently impressive--more important, they're impressively consistent. Few are the years in which a Crimson boat or rower hasn't won some major award...
callouses: only way to identify a real rower. The blades leave raw spots on your hands which turn into brown, scaly callouses...
crab: put the blade in the water at aother than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water, which in turn destroys the rower's rhytym and at worst flips him or her out of the shell...
Stone says she has never been approached by a rower concerned about dieting. "It's not something you want to ask someone about," she adds...
...previous weight requirement was based on a boat's average weight, not on each rower's maximum weight which meant," says Dietz, "that sometimes one had to pick boats by weight and not by skill." The new system, she adds, "not only allows for people to know in advance what they have to weight but encourages slow and gradual weight loss...